Kerim-Friedman-on-Ilya-Lee.md

Some more thoughts on Shih-Chieh Ilya Li.

1. I met him through blogging. He was one of the first bloggers in Taiwan and when I came back to look for work in Taiwan in 2005 I had met him for the first time, along with some other people who have remained close, such as Weizhong Yang, Lukhnos Liu, and Yi-tze Lee (who is now a colleague!)

2. 2005? Seems like I've known him much longer. I think we shared certain ways of thinking that made it feel that way.

3. He was one of the few people to see the danger of "fake news" and foreign bots on the Taiwanese political landscape. In the past few weeks I'd arranged for two foreign reporters to talk to him about this. I don't know if they ever did. He had set up a company that was working on political informatics..

4. As Lukhnos reminded me, his name "Ilya" was from a quote in Levinas "This anonymous being, also called the il y a [there is], does not “give” the way Heidegger's Being does."

5. Only long after I met him did I discover that he had been one of the first people to graduate from the program I now teach at! Another in many intersections that explain how come we got along so well...

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on-ilyalee.md

想起當初從電商離職時，有前輩問我接下來要去哪裡？我說 noema ，前輩露出溫柔的表情，說 Shih-Chieh Ilya Li 不會輕易開除人。

剛進 noema 時應該是我最低潮的時期，那時願意聽我抱怨那些雞毛蒜皮的小事的，是 Ilya 。

他可以聊上古資訊圈歷史、 Second Life (Furrrrr!) ，到現在 VR 的發展。也淺淺地跟我介紹過人生中的魔法、程式語言的材質。

和他還有些奇怪的緣分，他說他真愛電影，想當導演、講故事，在大學時參加過學長辦的電影活動。而他學長似乎是我叔叔。也在公司一起看過 Every Frame a Painting ，聽他介紹導演

當不適合喝酒的我，在尾牙亂喝一通喝掛時，載我到捷運站的也是 Ilya 。

之後他決定繼續經營公司，我決定另外找工作，見面機會就少了。

還記得到最後都沒答應到他家吃飯、記得他來台中開會時的襯衫，記得有事沒事會跟同事問起 Ilya 公司的現況、有沒有需要幫忙？

還想見他一面，揍他，罵他怎麼可以把自己的身體顧成這樣

Yihong-Chang-on-Ilya-Lee.md

剛剛知道了一個難過的消息，閉起眼看見了年輕時候現在已經不在的一個長廊，從高中起就沒變啊，我這樣想。

「我們需要正向的人」。她說。我不知道骨子裡他是不是正向的人，但至少發散出來的是。總是有一些大計劃，雖然我也總是太現實地把他的計畫縮個幾成來想。從很久以前就知道這是性格不同的結果，但是其實一直也沒有真正合作的事情在做，直到認識很多年之後的去年才合作了一個小計畫，很訝異地發現他很務實啊！

關於年輕時認識的人我其實很疏離。他有時會跳出的名字，其實我的記憶裡都是穿著高中制服的模樣，他很自然地說著，如同昨天才大家一起見面（嘿！我其實最近看到他們可能是25年前了），但因為他，好像連結還存在著。

連結到一個正向的，有願景的世界。這會是我的記憶。和難過。

李士傑 （Shih-Chieh Ilya Li）

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